Kick idiots out of football
Part one of our staggered end to the season and Gretna sign off from the SPL, probably from football, with a victory against Hearts.
So the Gretna farce ends on a high note. The players have, if nothing else, shown some professional pride. But tonight's crowd of just over 1000 tells its own story. Gretna never belonged in the SPL. Fairytales are fine. But sport is...
The key phrase from the interview with Romanov (carried in Russian football magazine Futbol) was: “Celtic and Rangers? Even Kaunas are a match for them on the pitch. The thing is they've turned football into a type of show business with their underhand games. They buy off players and referees.” At this point what might have been another Vlad rant turned into something much bigger. Speaking to...
………….and then it came. He undoubtedly brings something new to the Scottish game. And today Vlad gave us a lesson in how to dig yourself out of a hole with all guns blazing. Excuse the mangled metaphors but the Romanov statement on Hearts’ official website was spectacular. Here it is in full as it appeared (along with the illustration above) Read Vlad’s Back Part Four for my attempt to make...
Congratulations to the SPFA for coming out and making a stand against Vladimir Romanov.
Fraser Wishart, secretary of the Scottish Professional Footballers Association, said:
“The SPFA condemns in the strongest of terms what it regards as the wholly unjustified treatment of Heart of Midlothian FC towards our member, Steven Pressley.
"The SPFA and its parent body, the GMB union, have long...
So he’s back.
Chapter 752 in the Tynecastle saga as Valdas Ivanauskas returns to the club and promises to focus on getting three points on Saturday – although at least the hapless Mr Malofeev and his translator managed to avoid dropping into the British manager’s cliché handbook.
Still that Valdas is prepared to risk his health to work for Vlad the Impaler and has started making the right...
Have you heard the one about the team that lost three managers and had an invisible owner?
No. Neither had I, but it’s unlikely to raise much of a titter in Gorgie at the moment.
Let’s recap.
Captain Steven Pressley has been dropped for speaking out against the Romanov revolution.
But Romanov, the most visible of all the SPL owners, has turned pretty much invisible.
Valdas Ivanauskas is...
On Friday Rangers and Hearts sat second and third in the SPL table. By Sunday evening Rangers had moved back into second and Hearts had fallen to fifth. But has a game between two sides occupying such lofty status in the top division ever been overshadowed to the extent this one was? Sure Rangers haven’t exactly been resting on a bed of roses this season but Paul Le Guen must at least be...
